Soccer Mom Race Weekend 2014
Background
“Oh come on! A minivan only race is a brilliant idea!”
The fan whirred overhead as the manager facepalmed.
“Please tell me this isn’t your plan to help the track, Jordie,” He grumbled.
“But it is!” Jordie’s face beamed. “Think of it, minivans are some of the least track ready vehicles out there. Imagine how fun it’d be to see a whole field of them racing!”
“About as fun as me receiving overdue bills and noise ordinances from the owner,” The manager sat up in his office chair.
“Look man, there are many successful school bus and hearse leagues out there!” Jordie pointed towards the window. “This could be the next big thing! Nobody else does this!”
“And for good reason.”
“Where’s that passion of leadership and innovation that the track owner wants, hmm? You know street racing is a big problem around these parts, and you know used minivans are dirt cheap now that SUVs are all the rage.” Jordie grinned, “It’ll get law enforcement off your back some I bet with those noise ordinances.”
The manager stared out the window at the sun-bleached track, “Alright, you’ll get ONE weekend to prove that this works.” The manager whipped around, “But if this falls flat on its face, your performance review may not be so bright this quarter.”
“I have full faith in this sir!” Jordie nodded. “I’m sure you’ll have nothing but good things to say in a few month’s time!”
Welcome all to the Soccer Mom Race Weekend 2014 (SMRW14)! A local track decided (perhaps against their better judgement) to host a handful of races only open to minivans!
For this challenge, you will be submitting two cars: A production car to be sold to the masses and a race car that a future owner will “improve” from the production model.
Don’t want to submit a production car? No problem! You can get a pre-assigned vehicle to enter the racing portion! More details will come later.
Rules:
Production Car Phase:
Your boss tasked you with creating a minivan to join the not-so-exciting model lineup. This vehicle will be the underpinnings of your fire breathing race machine.
Remember, even though the intent is to race the vehicle, the production car has to be a reasonable common vehicle. No, your carbon fiber 1.2L V16 Quad Turbo minivan on semi slicks does not count.
General rules:
- Car MUST be in a stable build of Automation.
- No meme entries.
- No legacy bodies.
- Interiors not required.
Production car build rules:
- Body style MUST be minivan/people carrier/MPV as viewed by the game.
- Family/Trim years must be between 1980 and 2014.
- Cost must not exceed $32,000.
- No negative quality.
- No race parts.
- Car must “look and function” as a production car (headlights, wipers, gas cap, etc).
- Default techpool (all at +5).
- Tires must stay at 0 quality.
- Car must run on unleaded pump gas (unleaded fuel only, octanes no higher than 93 AKI).
- Trims before 1985 can run on leaded gas no higher than 93 AKI.
- Car must have at least 90% normalized desirability in one of the following markets:
- Family.
- Family Budget.
- Family Premium.
- Family Utility Budget.
- Family Utility.
- Family Utility Premium.
- Premium.
- Passenger Fleet.
- Car must meet Hetvesian emissions regulations for its trim year.
Production Car Submissions:
- Naming convention:
- Car model: SMRW14 - USERNAME
- Car trim: Car name - (Prod). (ex, ACZ Concur S4C - Prod)
- Engine family: SMRW14 - USERNAME
- Engine variant: - Engine name - (Prod). (ex, 2.3L I4 - Prod)
- You must indicate if you would like your car to be available to others to download and modify.
- You must post a picture of your production car in the thread with a short blurb advertising it (1-2 sentences is all that’s needed).
Design Inspiration
Production Car Submission Deadline: TBD
Production Car Rule Deliberation Deadline: 2025-01-25T05:00:00Z→2025-02-02T17:00:00Z
Race car rules TBD.